A bill before Congress could potentially hand over an unprecedented amount of “emergency” military aid to Israel, a serial human rights abuser. Clauses in the bill would green-light secret arms deals – and kill civilians.
Latest casualty figures from Gaza, horrific humanitarian situation, Israel’s recent targets, politics of a “pause,” West Bank news.
Jabaliya refugee camp attack, humanitarian situation, hostage update, latest in the West Bank. Death toll in Gaza has passed 8,000.
New info and stats about the ongoing situation – updated regularly – also provides background & history. (This is pinned to the top – see additional new posts below.)
A detailed annotation of the errors and omissions that mislead readers on a profoundly important issue…including little-known information about Presidents Eisenhower, Reagan, and Bush Sr., who each had moments of clarity on this issue, and called out Israel for its abuses.
There aren’t many populations in the world as helpless as the Palestinians who live in their own country. No one protects their lives and property. They are totally abandoned to their fates. Their houses and cars can be torched, their fields set on fire. It’s all right to shoot them mercilessly, killing old people and babies, with no defense forces at their side. No police, no military: no one…
Kevin McCarthy, Ron DeSantis, Steny Hoyer, et al do Israel’s bidding, cancel First Amendment, criminalize Americans, enable genocide against Palestinian Christians and Muslims, etc…
The May 11, 2022, killing of Palestinian-American journalist Shireen Abu Akleh is part of a deadly, decades-long pattern. Over 22 years, the Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ) has documented at least 20 journalists killed by Israeli forces. Despite numerous IDF probes, no one has ever been charged or held responsible for these deaths. The impunity in these cases has severely undermined the freedom of the press, leaving the rights of journalists uncertain.
Parroting the Israel “history” fantasy that Netanyahu has been peddling, extremist Israeli lawmaker Bezalel Smotrich told an audience, “Palestinian people are an invention…This is the biblical truth.”
Israeli forces targeted three Palestinian resistance activists in a massive assault in downtown Nablus, but managed to kill at least eight others as well, including a youth. Over 100 Palestinians were injured, many by live ammunition, others by an Israeli army jeep that rammed into a crowd. Israeli soldiers also blocked paramedics and damaged ambulances.